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See also: 1806 in France, other events of 1807, 1808 in France.

Events from the year 1807 in France.

Events

• February - Napoleon attacks Russia.
• 7 February-8 February - Battle of Eylau, indecisive result, but Russian retreat.
• 19 March - Siege of Danzig begins as French lay siege to Russian and Prussian forces.
• 4 May - Treaty of Finckenstein signed between France and Persia, guaranteeing the integrity of Persia.
• 24 May - Siege of Danzig ends with Russian and Prussian capitulation.
• 10 June - Battle of Heilsberg, inconclusive.
• 14 June - Battle of Friedland, decisive French victory over Russian forces.
• 7 July - Treaty of Tilsit ends the war with Russia.
• 9 July - Treaty of Tilsit ends the war with Prussia.
• 27 October - Treaty of Fontainebleau signed between Spain and France, dividing Portugal and all its dominions between the signatories.
• 9 September - Napoleon establishes the Free City of Danzig.
• 17 December - Milan Decree issued by Napoleon, stating that no European country was to trade with the United Kingdom.

Births

January to June

• 6 January - Auguste Nicolas, Roman Catholic apologetical writer (d.1888).
• 2 February - Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, politician (d.1874).
• 5 February - Ernest Legouvé, dramatist (d.1903).
• 26 February - Théophile-Jules Pelouze, chemist (d.1867).
• 4 March - Jean Baptiste Lucien Buquet, entomologist (d.1889).
• 12 April - Charles Rigault de Genouilly, Admiral (d.1873).
• 26 April - Charles Auguste Frossard, general (d.1875).

July to December

• 24 August - Jules Verreaux, botanist and ornithologist (d.1873).
• 3 September - Raymond Gayrard, sculptor (d.1855).
• 21 October - Napoléon Henri Reber, composer (d.1880).
• 14 November - Auguste Laurent, chemist (d.1853).
• 20 November - Augustus Thébaud, Jesuit educator and publicist (d.1885).

Full date unknown

• Edouard Dulaurier, Orientalist and Egyptologist (d.1881).
• Jean-Jacques Feuchère, sculptor (d.1852).
• Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize, painter (d.1893).
• Jules Guyot, physician and agronomist (d.1872).
• Alphonse Sagebien, hydrological engineer (d.1892).

Deaths

January to June

• 13 January - Pierre Joseph Buchoz, physician, lawyer and naturalist (b.1731).
• 17 January - Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet, naturalist (b.1761).
• 14 February - Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul, General (b.1754).
• 25 February - Jeanne-Marie Marsan, singer and actress (b.1746).
• 4 April - Jérôme Lalande, astronomer and writer (b.1732).
• 5 May - Napoleon Charles Bonaparte, eldest son of Louis Bonaparte (b.1802).
• 10 May - Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, aristocrat and Marshal of France (b.1725).
• 18 May - Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier, younger brother of Louis-Philippe of France (b.1775).

July to December

• 19 August - Louis Binot, General (b.1771).
• 25 August - Sophie Ristaud Cottin, writer (b.1770).
• 25 August - Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis, jurist and politician (b.1746).
• 31 August - Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun, poet (b.1729).
• October - Louis Pierre de Chastenet de Puységur, soldier and Minister of War (b.1727).
• 2 November - Baron de Breteuil, aristocrat, diplomat and Prime Minister (b.1730).
• 8 November - Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait, engineer, hydrographer and Minister of the Navy (b.1752).
• 23 November - Jean-François Rewbell, lawyer, diplomat and politician (b.1747).

Full date unknown

• Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target, lawyer and politician (b.1733).

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